Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
In this narrated video essay, we present the absolute cheesiest tale about Charlemagne (r. 768-814) that was recorded by the medieval monk and historian,...
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"The sectarians deafen one another with their noise and clamor, keep anxiety away with their screeching."
From Soren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling...
This painting, by the French artist Fernand Pelez, depicts the death scene of the infamous Emperor Commodus (r. 180-192), son of the highly respected...
Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)
"To lead into battle a people that has not first been instructed is to betray them."
The Analects of Confucius (Book XIII,...
This painting, by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme (c. 1824-1904), depicts the assassination of the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar, on the Ides of March...
(Adriaen Backer "Semiramis receives word of the uprising in Babylon" c. 1669, via Creative Commons)
The ascent from impressive mortality to legendary immortality
Powerful Women
Even...
